Comments on: Why You’re Wrong: The Data Professional’s Guide To Contentious Issues https://thomaslarock.com/2016/04/data-professionals-guide-contentious-issues/ Thomas LaRock is an author, speaker, data expert, and SQLRockstar. He helps people connect, learn, and share. Along the way he solves data problems, too. Mon, 14 Sep 2020 07:50:51 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 By: Sean Redmond https://thomaslarock.com/2016/04/data-professionals-guide-contentious-issues/#comment-75522 Mon, 14 Sep 2020 07:50:51 +0000 http://thomaslarock.com/?p=17349#comment-75522 You speak the truth, plain and simple.
You did have a lightness in the head, though, when it came to tabs & uppercase.
You obviously meant to write that tabs should be 2 spaces long and keywords lowercase.
Nothing else could be true or indeed make any sense.

Sean.

]]> By: Mìcheal Thomson https://thomaslarock.com/2016/04/data-professionals-guide-contentious-issues/#comment-16126 Tue, 26 Sep 2017 17:28:00 +0000 http://thomaslarock.com/?p=17349#comment-16126 Much of this seems sensible, but I see two problems with your approach:

A total ban on triggers will make decent auditing difficult

A total ban on NULLs could only make sense if both (a) you also have a total ban on OUTER JOIN and (b) either (b 1) you are happy to let defaults for values you don’t know be indistingushable from real values that just happen to equal the default value or (b 2) you always know everything.

Tom

]]> By: ThomasLaRock https://thomaslarock.com/2016/04/data-professionals-guide-contentious-issues/#comment-14862 Mon, 08 Aug 2016 17:30:00 +0000 http://thomaslarock.com/?p=17349#comment-14862 In reply to Mike W.

Unknown.

]]> By: Mike W https://thomaslarock.com/2016/04/data-professionals-guide-contentious-issues/#comment-14856 Sun, 07 Aug 2016 19:40:00 +0000 http://thomaslarock.com/?p=17349#comment-14856 “They allow you to do wonderful things such as increase administrative overhead, cause performance problems, and modify data without anyone knowing.”

I laughed out loud at this, when asked by other half what I was laughing at and told her, she wouldn’t believe me so thinks I’m keeping secrets from her. Thanks, random Internet person. You got me in trouble.

And what’s wrong with nulls?

]]> By: danielsun https://thomaslarock.com/2016/04/data-professionals-guide-contentious-issues/#comment-14078 Mon, 02 May 2016 11:43:00 +0000 http://thomaslarock.com/?p=17349#comment-14078 In reply to ThomasLaRock.

Dude, you just ruined a limerick I’ve been working on involving an old man DBA from Tucumcari….

]]> By: ThomasLaRock https://thomaslarock.com/2016/04/data-professionals-guide-contentious-issues/#comment-14076 Mon, 02 May 2016 11:24:00 +0000 http://thomaslarock.com/?p=17349#comment-14076 In reply to danielsun.

qwarey? Nope. Besides, they aren’t queries, they are requests. That’s why we have dm_exec_requests.

]]> By: danielsun https://thomaslarock.com/2016/04/data-professionals-guide-contentious-issues/#comment-14075 Mon, 02 May 2016 11:19:00 +0000 http://thomaslarock.com/?p=17349#comment-14075 Spaces, dammit, not tabs! Never tabs! And 3 spaces, not 4. Don’t ask: I have my (patented, copyrighted) reasons. 😉

Now, as far as pronunciation is concerned: is query pronounced “queerie” or “qwarey”–the dictionary says both are valid; I tend toward the latter, but others have corrected me and claimed I should be saying the former. Tomayto, tomahto?

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